Kwon Hyerim, Choi In Young, Kim Dai-Jin, Yoo Jae Hyun
Department of Psychiatry, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Department of Medical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Psychiatry Investig. 2024 Jun;21(6):551-560. doi: 10.30773/pi.2023.0339. Epub 2024 Jun 24.
Since the impact of the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic, the need for efficiency in medical services has become more urgent than ever. The digital treatment market is rapidly growing worldwide and digital therapeutics (DTx), a major part of the digital medical services, is also emerging as a new paradigm for treatment, with its industry growing rapidly as well. Increasing research is done on the effectiveness of mobile DTx in improving mental health conditions such as insomnia, panic, and depression.
This review paper investigates 1) the functions and characteristics of mobile digital mental health care applications for the treatment of anxiety symptoms, 2) extracts common attributes of the applications, and 3) compares them with existing traditional treatment mechanisms.
Among the 20,000 mental health management applications that have been developed so far, 8 applications that are relatively widely used were selected and reviewed. Check-in, self-help tips, quick relief, journal, courses for practice are common features of the digital mental health care applications for anxiety and are also widely used feature in the cognitive behavioral therapy.
Based on this review, we have proposed the essential elements and directions for the development of a Korean digital mental health care applications for anxiety disorders.
自2019年冠状病毒病大流行以来，医疗服务效率的需求比以往任何时候都更加迫切。数字治疗市场在全球范围内迅速增长，作为数字医疗服务主要组成部分的数字疗法（DTx）也正在成为一种新的治疗范式，其行业也在迅速发展。关于移动数字疗法在改善失眠、恐慌和抑郁等心理健康状况方面的有效性的研究越来越多。
这篇综述论文调查了1）用于治疗焦虑症状的移动数字心理健康护理应用程序的功能和特点，2）提取应用程序的共同属性，3）并将它们与现有的传统治疗机制进行比较。
在目前已开发的20000个心理健康管理应用程序中，选择并审查了8个使用相对广泛的应用程序。签到、自助小贴士、快速缓解、日志、练习课程是用于焦虑症的数字心理健康护理应用程序的共同特征，也是认知行为疗法中广泛使用的特征。
基于本综述，我们提出了韩国用于焦虑症的数字心理健康护理应用程序开发的基本要素和方向。
